A man cannot realize that above such shattered bodies there are still
human faces in which life goes its daily round. And this is only one
hospital, a single station; there are hundreds of thousands in Germany,
hundreds of thousands in France, hundreds of thousands in Russia. How
senseless is everything that can ever be written, done, or thought, when
such things are possible. It must be all lies and of no account when
the culture of a thousand years could not prevent this stream of blood
being poured out, these torture chambers in their hundreds of thousands.
A hospital alone shows what war is.
- Erich Maria Remarque, All Quiet on the Western Front
- Erich Maria Remarque, All Quiet on the Western Front
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